The Forrest City times., 1887-10-08
PITH AND POINT.

tcmpHllnE or tuS StaSc toa HChsos all work and no play. -Ieras Siftfng'.
 The land booms break out just after the assessor has been around--AHa Calitornia.
 Moving out of the garret is the only way in which some writers display attic uuit-7 7e1as S.ftiHgs.
 Perhaps Mir. Willard will yet make another triumphal progress through the northwest. st. Paul Gto6e.
 Jesse Pomeroy'e attempts at escape are a good argument for capital Pun ishment.-BoStoa Transcript.
 The all-summer boy colt on the oyster has been raised. The oyster is being lifted, too. Philadelphia Press.
 The hardest kicking on public enter prises always come from those who give the least.-Kansas City Sun.
 The undertakers are brightening up since the season for hunting prairie chickens has arrived. Lincoln Journal.
 A lightning calculator-the man who calculated that lightning wouldn't strike twice in one place. -1eras SttiHgs.
 One of last weeks lessons for rail- roads was that the air-brake should not be made of air alone. Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Canada may have tho union she is after, by means of little band Of gold around her finger. -Syracuse Standard.
 In the olden time when a lawyer in- suited a judge, court was adjourned for the duel. Now the lawyer is put in jail. -- Galues.on Netos.
 An ingenious Boston man has invent ed missile to throw at umpires. which can be furnished by the ushers in any quantity. -1eraS bifttngs.
 A Chinaman can make money by running I store. while some Caucas- ians m ght peddle the whole alphabet and starve. -Teras SVliHgs.
 Tho visit of Mir. McGarigle to Hong Kong will be great relief to the de- tectives They will not have to annoy him now.-Aew York Graphic.
 Water is supposed 10 be as cheap and as plentiful as dirt, yet a jeweler has no compunction in charging $l for main spring. = CharleStolon Enterprise. The statement of our rival is bare legged, raw -boned, Liberated. weather beaten old falsehood, that long ago wore itself Mits0atttee Telegraph.
 It is only the harrassed schoolmaster who can fully appreciate the pertinency of the name bo give to tennis shoes sneakers.-BoSton Journal of Edncd- tioR.
 While those learned doctors are in ! Washington it may be well for Uncle Sam to show lem that dreadfully swol- len surplus leg of his.-Phitddetphta Record.
 The milkmen have added l cent e | quart, with the understand ing that the milk is to be pure. This may relieve the demands on the pumpingworks. - MiiWaukee Sentinel.
 The children for whom there is not school room can go up the river and amuse themselves watching the l expenditure of funds for flushing tun- uel.-4WtleaUbee Sentinel
 A Bar Harbor girl who was told by an old boatman to be sure and have her boat well trimmed went to work and I wale.- Yoatcrs StatesmaH.
 The prince of Siam goes home by the i Canada route. He avoided San Fran cisco. and it is just IS well. for his l fay0r,te drink IS a mixture of beer and lemonade.-Alta CaLJornta.
 The rumor that the ex-bank cashiers 1 in Canada would organize a trust 1 appears to be unfounded. They are to we'll acquainted with each others i hands. s.-LeaUeHWorLh Times.
 If man and wife are one flesh no wonder it is such painful operation for them to get divorced. And, by the way. that reminds us that divorces should only be granted on Twos-day.- Charleston Lntcrprtse.
 Many lady will extol the fairness and spread the fame of business house during her whole lifetime just because of some little concession they made to | her, which cost them little, but flatter- ed her self-esteem. -Carpet Trade aud RepieW
 Many man thinks thatit is his good ness which keeps him from crime, when it is only hs full stomach. On half allowance he would be as ugly and knavish as anybody. Don't mistake potatoes for principlesl-BWrttngto | Justice.
 It is little hard on Gen. Miles to have escaped the perils of the war and of numerous Indian campa ngns only to have his leg broken by falling from a tally-ho coach. Fate seems to love q joke once-in while, even if it be a painful one to the subject.-New YorA World